[milanya]

Kemi,
Do you understand what the role of a devil's advocate is in an argument? 'the devil's advocate' does not mean one who supports the devil, rather it is an expression that means the person in an argument who takes a skeptical view at the proceedings and looks for possible holes in an argument, without necessarily letting his/her personal opinion get in the way.

God does not want us to blindly follow religion. There are aspects of faith that are based on believing without seeing, but there are factors that we can argue on and interpret and make informed decisions. Choosing to believe something just because it is a part of your church without questioning it is blind faith. Faith should not be devoid of reason.

As for pagan webpages, one day you will be faced with the task as a Christian to evangelize someone who has not had the privilege to study the bible or any aspect of faith. I am not a proponent of evolution, but when I argue with an evolutionist, I read his argument and point out the holes in his argument. I do not start telling him "you are wrong because Genesis 1:1..."what good will that do if he doesn't believe in the bible?
As I said before, this is where Christianity will fail to convert others, because you do not try and understand their pagan ways and explain why they are wrong before you show them the light. You basically almost speak another language and expect them to understand
The same thing that got the missionaries in a pickle. Instead of studying the locals and their ways tehy just arrived and started breathing fire and brimstone. The same reason Christianity has had a difficult time in Japan. The missionaries realized they have to study THEIR religion, THEIR culture, their pagan ways so they can understand them better and spread the word effectively.







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>To me, the questions in regards to free will and
>predistination have been answered here. The problem is that
>minds are overcrowded by paganic spirits to understand. And I
>believe that answers to biblical enigmas lie within the
>bible(in some cases not) and not webpages of pagans. You cant
>look for the living among the dead.
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>I'll be back with a sober answer to ur question(s)


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